John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee)
2010-Aug-27 13:17 UTC
[Xen-users] Creating Fedora PV Guest Images
Xen users, Is there any current information on how to create PV guest images for Fedora? The Xen Wiki information is a bit dated and searching the archives of xen-users did not turn up anything useful. I''d like to build my own instead of grabbing one from stacklet. Sincerely, John ---- What is the formal meaning of the one-line program #include "/dev/tty" J.P. McDermott building 12 Code 5542 mcdermott@itd.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Laboratory voice: +1 202.404.8301 Washington, DC 20375, US fax: +1 202.404.7942 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:17 PM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) <john.mcdermott@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:> Xen users, > > Is there any current information on how to create PV guest images for Fedora?Did you try using virt-install? That was the easiest way, last time I tried. something like "yum --installroot" can also be used, but it''s more complex as you have to do some manual process afterwards. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:52 PM, John McDermott (U.S. Navy Employee) <john.mcdermott@nrl.navy.mil> wrote:> Fajar, > > Thanks. I am looking for information on how the .img files that virt-install uses are created.similar to how you install Fedora on physical machines: using anaconda installer.> I have not done an install of guests for about 2 years. We used to use dd to copy a file system into an image and that was all that was required. I was curious if that is still so and what needs to be in the file systems tree (e.g. /boot, /etc).That still works. Assuming you already have a working PV base image (from virt-install or whatever), you can simply dd-it to create a new image, and create a suitable xen config file. -- Fajar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users